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Progent is looking for proven Sr. Microsoft information technology consulting experts in Salinas, California to help a variety of small and midsize organizations to manage networks based on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2016, 2012, 2008, and Microsoft Exchange 2007 through 2016. Important areas of expertise include network architecture, AD design and repair, Exchange-based messaging, security, and server monitoring

Advantages of Working with Progent
Progent is a progressive computer consulting and IT outsourcing firm based in San Jose, CA}, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Effective models for client acquisition, service delivery, virtual office infrastructure, and employee benefits have allowed Progent to become among the fastest growing and most respected Microsoft Partners in the United States. Our extensive support information base and collaborative style of problem resolution has allowed Progent to build up a talented staff and a satisfied worldwide client base.

If you have been awarded a Microsoft MCSE accreditation and live in the Salinas area, teaming with Progent and working for Progent's clients will expand your technical abilities through interaction with Progent's team of collaborative, high-output consultants. Progent's focus on providing computer consulting and network support to small companies will give you the opportunity to operate personally with decision makers and contribute significantly to the success of exciting companies. In addition, Progent's virtual office infrastructure provides state-of-the-art tools for remote access and mobile connectivity to help you to implement quick solutions when you take on mission-critical problems.

ProSight LAN Watch is Progentís server and desktop remote monitoring managed service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management technology to help keep your IT system operating at peak levels by checking the health of vital devices that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alarm is transmitted automatically to your designated IT personnel and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so all looming issues can be addressed before they can disrupt productivity.

ProSight IT Asset Management is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether youíre making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require when you need it.

Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously called SyteLine, is an ERP solution that embodies more than 25 years of background helping manufacturing and distribution organizations to simplify supply chains and improve the efficiency of critical business processes to get products to market fast and meet customer commitments consistently. Progent offers the skills of an ERP specialist with more than 20 years of background with the SyteLine/CloudSuite Industrial platform. Progent offers remote or on-premises consulting that spans from as-needed guidance to solution planning and project management outsourcing or co-sourcing. Sample services available from Progent for CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine include implementation, migration, process improvement, application development, CPQ, web site integration, debugging, ETL, Excel and SQL integration, disaster recovery planning, and DBA services.

Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to find high availability data centers that meet the particular needs of your business. Fault tolerant collocation sites are especially attractive to small companies due to of their low cost and convenience in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to build an in-house data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is too expensive for most small companies. Progent can help you get all the benefits of non-stop data centers and fault tolerant colo sites by offering a complete array of consulting and maintenance services.

Small to mid-sized businesses can now enjoy all the advantages of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and also have fast access to Progentís Microsoft and Cisco Certified IT consulting professionals. With Progent's affordably priced IT support programs, small and midsize organizations can choose a simple Microsoft System Center Operations Manager-based co-sourcing package with network monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and remote service or a complete 24x7 outsourcing package. Progent supports Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to provide small business networks world-class reliability, protection, and performance.

Even if your business has a minimal computer support group and a limited technology budget, your information network can still feature the same high availability and responsiveness that once needed a substantial internal service group. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of world-class Microsoft-certified and Cisco-premier network consultants, the most recent network management products for 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective service packages such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical network applications and hardware operating.

Progent's pricing model is to charge for remote support and on-premises help by the minute. Consequently, you owe exclusively for received support. Progent does not demand a higher rate for after-hours or urgent service, and within California or in regions where Progent offers on-premises service, Progent does not bill for travel time except for emergency calls where on-site time is less than 4 hours. Also, Progent imposes no minimum fee and asks no monthly commitment for support services provided during regular business hours. Many support firms impose large minimum fees or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's small granularity does away with big bills for quick fixes so you will not be forced to permit less critical problems to fester.

Progentís staff of Microsoft and Cisco Certified consultants average longer than a decade of real-world professional experience, at the forefront of network support, performing a broad variety of technical projects for an extensive mix of businesses. Every Progent consultant shares a refined set of personal best practices which are combined into company-wide leading practices training that Progent instills in its consulting staff. This guarantees that you get not just world-class IT capability, but also a consultant with proven methods for using technical knowledge to fix actual network problems rapidly.

Progent has more than 10 years of experience integrating, maintaining and troubleshooting the key platforms included with Microsoft System Center and can help you to design, configure, support, and fix your System Center 2012 R2 solution to optimize the uptime and performance of your applications and infrastructure across multiple Windows and Linux/Unix OS environments and local and Cloud-based fabric. Progent can help your organization to migrate to the current edition of Microsoft System Center from an older release or from a third-party IT management platform to provide the advantages of enterprise-class provisioning, management automation, security, plus datacenter and critical application availability and performance monitoring.

Progent's compensation structure is built on revenue sharing, so similar to working as a freelance consultant, your income is directly driven by your work effort. Some of our support staff stress quality of life and elect to work at an easy pace, utilizing our flexible calendar to pursue individual pursuits such as hiking, motorcycle racing, skiing, surfing, vacations, or sharing private time with family and friends. Other consultants use the opportunity to earn major dollars via lots of work and extended hours. Progent completely encourages both sides of the spectrum and everything in the middle.

Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware.

Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting and Management service offers complete hosting of a small organization's production servers in a solution that gives the maximum level of availability and scalability and is also easy to move to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting options are based on mature virtualization technologies that enable small companies with mixed- platform environments to economize dramatically on the expense of capital equipment, infrastructure maintenance, and network management while benefiting from enterprise-class reliability and an unprecedented degree of vendor independence.

Progentís Microsoft-expert consultants can help you to enhance your desktops from 32 to 64 bits. Progent can help you to understand the costs and advantages of migrating to 64-bit PC desktop processing, design an efficient migration process that reduces operational interruptions, and provide inexpensive, expert remote support to aid your company to configure 64-bit desktop software and application software on your current computers.

The experience of Progent's certified Microsoft Windows Server 2003 consultants, with an average of more than 10 years of work in Microsoft technology, ensures you success in identifying the version and configuration of Windows 2003 Server that matches best with your business strategy. Progent can also assist you with planning, deploying, managing and troubleshooting powerful IT applications powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and can assist your migration from Windows 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows NT.

Exchange Server 2013 includes major enhancements to the capabilities of Exchange Server 2010 and delivers important new features as well as a revamped structure. These enhancements affect vital IT areas like manageability, high availability (HA), security and compliance, operational costs, teamwork, scalability, throughput, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting experts can help you evaluate the potential business benefits of migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, create an efficient test and deployment strategy, and train your IT team to manage your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment. Progent can also provide ongoing remote consulting and support and management services for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.

Progent's Citrix-certified experts can assist your organization to evaluate the potential business benefits of the available versions of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, help you to integrate Citrix management utilities with your Hyper-V network, and show you how to use Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V to improve the responsiveness, uptime, consistency, and fault tolerance of your virtual network while reducing the cost of equipment and operations and streamlining administrative tasks.

Progentís team of Microsoft and Cisco Certified experts average more than ten years of hands-on industry experience, at the front lines of IT support, executing a broad variety of technical projects for an extensive array of clients. Each Progent support professional shares a proven collection of individual best practices that are combined into company-wide leading practices training that Progent instills in its support personnel. This guarantees that you get not only world-class technical capability, but also a support engineer with proven approaches for using technical knowledge to solve actual network problems efficiently.

Progent's Solaris platform support services provide small and mid-size companies and software developers assistance with managing and maintaining Solaris environments that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent offers your business access to Sun Solaris consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA certification. This broad range of experience offers you an easy single consulting firm to show you how to create and manage a protected and reliable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows Sun Solaris and Microsoft interoperability by integrating MS Windows with major variants of UNIX such as Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or leading Linux derivatives including RedHat Linux, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.

Progent's ProSight family of managed services are intended to offer organizations who have small internal IT administration and support teams with low-cost access to enterprise-class management platforms and consulting experts. Advantages of Progent's ProSight catalog of managed IT services include flat-rate network management expenses, smart automation of common management processes, continual absorption of new technology, graceful transition from older systems to up-to-date solutions, improved alignment of information technology with strategic objectives, guidance from veteran network experts, and freeing up management to concentrate on business rather than ever-changing information technology.

Progent's Microsoft-authorized experts can show you how to rationalize the business case for deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, advise you on the most sensible version of SharePoint Portal Server for your application, offer configuration and integration expertise, assist you to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a supporting database manager, improve your network infrastructure, integrate your off-the-shelf and customized application software to work with SharePoint Portal Server 2007, develop a company-wide security plan that includes portal technology, and provide troubleshooting and Help Desk services.

Progentís Wireless Site Survey makes it easy to design and install an 802.11a/b/g/n or 802.11ac (Wi-Fi) WLAN optimized for your environment, providing you a wireless solution that delivers the reception, performance, load-handling capability, Quality of Service, security, and roaming ability your company requires. Progent's Wireless Site Survey services are offered either as an affordable online service or as a more detailed on-premises service.

Progent's Microsoft-certified Office Excel and Office 365 Excel application consultants offer a wide variety of online support services to help you to plan, develop, pilot test, install, administer, and troubleshoot applications based on any version of Microsoft Excel, including Office Excel desktop and Microsoft Office 365 Excel. Progent can help you to upgrade your legacy Excel applications to the newest releases of Excel, support Excel on iOS-powered iPhones and iPads and Android phones and tablets, and fix compatibility issues between different releases of Office Excel. Progent can provide on-demand help to organizations who need a quick fix to a specific issue related to Excel and Progent also offers full project management services for migrating or creating mission-critical applications built on Excel. Progent's cost-effective online training classes for Office Excel can be custom tailored to meet the needs of individuals or groups.

Exchange 2013 includes significant enhancements to the functionality of its predecessor Microsoft Exchange 2010 and delivers important new features as well as a redesigned architecture. These improvements affect vital areas such as ease of administration, availability, compliance, operational costs, collaboration, extensibility, throughput, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to understand the possible advantages of migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013, create a cost-effective test and deployment plan, and train your IT staff to manage your Microsoft Exchange 2013 environment. Progent also offers affordable online consulting and support and management services for Exchange Server 2013.

Progent's Juniper Networks-certified network engineer can assist you to plan and implement Juniper Firewall and VPN technology, enhance and support your infrastructure, and migrate efficiently from discontinued devices to the latest versions. Progent's Junos OS consultants can provide expertise with Juniper's premiere network operating system to help your business to simplify the administration and strengthen the security of your Juniper VPN devices firewalls, and routers. Progent also has broad background maintaining Juniper's NetScreen OS and ScreenOS software productss and can help organizations maintain environments that incorporate a combination of Juniper's OS platforms.

Progent can provide access to a senior consultant with years of hands-on experience configuring, managing, and upgrading immersive telepresence systems from leading vendors such as Cisco, TANDBERG, Polycom, and LifeSize. Progent's consultants can coordinate with your in-house network management team, your Internet Service Provider, and your telepresence platform vendor to assist your company increase the business value of your video conferencing solution.

Progent offers the support of Microsoft-certified consultants and experienced software developers, DBAs, project management experts, Cisco-certified network architects, disaster recovery planning specialists, and data security consultants to help you to assess the potential benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for your organization, set up pilot systems at your site or at Progent's lab, design and execute out a smooth transition to SQL Server 2012 from earlier versions of SQL Server or from other database platforms, and define an efficient and safe IT infrastructure that lets you maximize the business benefit of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

Progent can show you how to plan, configure, manage, monitor, and repair a viable Wi-Fi network infrastructure, recommend sensible hardware and software, and configure access points, bridges, radio antennas, wireless controllers, and various wireless accessories. Progent can also show you how to put together a complete 802.11x system security strategy that is well integrated with the security strategy for your entire business network.

Progent's Cisco-Meraki Wi-Fi access point consultants can assist you to plan, set up, manage and troubleshoot Cisco's Meraki-based Wi-Fi networks for deployments from a branch office to a large campus or a nationwide enterprise. Progent can also assist clients to incorporate other Cisco devices for streamlined management.

Progent's Microsoft-certified failover clustering experts can assist businesses to evaluate the advantages of utilizing Windows Server 2012 clustering to create an advanced fault-tolerant/disaster recovery strategy, help your organization to plan and install a Windows Server 2012 system, deliver online and on-premises consulting expertise and engineering support for clusters composed of physical servers or virtual machines, and show you how to automate the management of failover clusters.

If you want to update your production web site, create internal websites for applications such as HR or worker education, establish a powerful web presence for a new venture, or write line-of-business, data-driven specialized web applications, Progent can supply skilled and experienced web designers. Progent's experts can also help you build and manage a safe, fault-tolerant server and communications network, including off-site and wireless connectivity, to support your web tools.

Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers offer advanced expertise in implementing, using and debugging all versions of Microsoft Project, Project Server, and Project Online and can deliver a broad range of cost-effective remote support services based on proven best practices to assist organizations of any size to receive all the benefits of this powerful platform. Support services offered by Progent include solution design, software configuration and migration, strategies for safe file and status sharing among local and remote or mobile users, network infrastructure optimization, and customized webinar training.

Progent's certified security consultants can show you how to secure your Mac environment through professional services such as running security audits, recovery from virus and denial of service penetrations, setting up firewalls, implementing safe remote and mobile access, installing monitoring software for defense against viruses, spam, and malware, and creating a company-wide security strategy adapted for the specific objectives of your corporate network.

Progent's remote connectivity and smartphone synchronization experts can assist your business to design and deploy connectivity solutions for off-site desktops, notebooks, and smartphones so they integrate seamlessly with your information network, allowing you to optimize the efficiency of your off-site workforce.

Before Progentís MOM-based solution, system problems were approached reactively, after workers complained about them. With the benefit of proactive, automated warnings and trend reports created by MOM, Progent is now able to fix system issues before they grow to be critical enough to impact network availability. Thanks to Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can deal with potential problems before clients suspect that the problems are there. Progent has expertise with MOM 2005 and MOM 2000 to deliver small company networks enterprise-class service continuity, safety and productivity.

Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide cost-effective remote support and development services to help your business to design, implement, administer, and troubleshoot Microsoft SharePoint 2010 environments that can include web pages able to function as intranets, extranets, document management applications, blogs, data marts, business analytics, enterprise-wide search, workflows, and other tools to promote and improve collaboration. Progent can show you how to combine SharePoint 2010 with MS SQL Server and with other data sources as well as with Microsoft's popular office productivity applications including Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project. Progent can assist your business to upgrade from earlier versions of SharePoint or move a multi-vendor mix of web applications into a consolidated and easy-to-manage SharePoint 2010 environment.

Microsoft Windows 8.1 is engineered to run on devices from smartphones and slates to engineering workstations. A wealth of innovative capabilities, such as touch screen interface and iconic tile user interface, provide a broad selection of advantages for companies who understand how to exploit them. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help bring your organization up the learning curve with Microsoft Windows 8.1 and show you how to derive maximum competitive advantage from the operating system's many new and enhanced technologies.

Progentís Cisco Security/VPN consultants and CCIE and CCNP certified experts can help your small or mid-size company integrate and support Ciscoís security and VPN technology such as routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco VPN solutions include both off-site connectivity and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and Advanced Integrated Module hardware encryption cards, and hardware devices, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or dedicated VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN solutions are simple to manage and offer the versatility to expand with your changing business needs. Progentís Cisco-Certified network consultants support Ciscoís comprehensive line of products aimed at preventing data theft, virus and worm outbreaks, DDoS attacks, and other security risks to your network. Progent can show you how to integrate Cisco products to get safe connectivity, intrusion protection, and full Identity services based on Cisco ACS using RADIUS security and TACACS to create a centralized user access control framework for user authentication, authorization, and tracking from a graphical Web interface.

Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service offers complete hosting of a small organization's production servers in a solution that delivers the highest level of availability and expandability and is also easy to migrate to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting and management options are built upon mature virtualization techniques that enable small and midsize businesses with multi- platform environments to save significantly on the costs of capital equipment, system maintenance, and network management while benefiting from enterprise-class fault tolerance and an unmatched level of vendor flexibility.

Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of the time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether youíre making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it.

Progent offers the part-time or temporary assistance of a seasoned Chief Information Officer who can provide strategic direction to assist you pick and maintain network solutions appropriate for your current needs and that can be a solid basis for your future growth. Progent's temporary CIO services provide economic advantages to companies trying to optimize the impact of their IT investment but who are without the budget or hesitant to take on another executive-level position to their head count. Since Progent is vendor-agnostic, with a sizable staff of consultants certified to maintain all major OS platforms and networking technologies plus a wide range and business software, Progent is in an ideal situation to offer unbiased advice as well as expert technical help for building and maintaining information systems that fit the special needs of your business.

Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting engineers can assist you to assess the benefits of Microsoft Exchange 2010 for your company and can help you to design and implement an efficient upgrade to Exchange Server 2010 from Exchange 2003 or Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server that will provide fast ROI by increasing your workers' efficiency, lowering the expense of hardware and service, streamlining management, and integrating your vital communications technologies.